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  • You might want to register your account, so you can log in again later. Otherwise, if your browser loses your login cookies, you won't be able to edit your own question and stuff like that. Commented Apr 20, 2022 at 15:00
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    I've edited your question a bit. If you don't like my edits, you can roll them back, or click edit to make further changes. Also, I found an MSFN thread where some people were discussing this kind of thing (removing unused code from io.sys). Commented Apr 20, 2022 at 15:11
  • The built-in XMS driver seems relatively easy to disable by patching three bytes, but… why would you want to? All it gets you is a crippled DOS. Commented Apr 20, 2022 at 16:59
  • I want to have an option at startup to run a pure dos without any memory managers. Rarely needed but useful feature. Which three bytes ? Can I load himem.sys from config.sys after that? Commented Apr 20, 2022 at 17:28
  • someone actually uses Win ME ? As I remember it was unstable and unusable on every machine I encounter back in the days ... did they patch it? to point it was usable ? Commented Apr 21, 2022 at 6:21